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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."

"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."

"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

"This country is undergoing great changes for the better."

"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
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"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."

"When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity."

"Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church."

"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well."

"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."

"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."

"I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States."
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